The paint aps are wildly superior to the MH one, and the sculpt is also a good notch above. The articulation almost is a non-issue since the MH one is probably "good enough" for many, but this one of course is a lot more heavily articulated.

I'd say, honestly, the paint aps and sculpt are where it's head and shoulders above MH though. One looks like a toy, and one looks like a little replica.

At this point, I think I've completely switched over to on-line buying for my 3.75" SW fix. Last wave I spotted at retail was the Malgus wave and sadly, I think that's a lot better luck than a lot of you out there have had finding new stuff.

At this point, I think I've completely switched over to on-line buying for my 3.75" SW fix. Last wave I spotted at retail was the Malgus wave and sadly, I think that's a lot better luck than a lot of you out there have had finding new stuff.

For me, I've been buying online for everything except the TPM & BluRay waves. I found the Malgus wave once, but everything else was a buy-by-the-case/set purchase from EE, BBTS or HTS.

I've given up trying to find Vintage at retail and the result will be that I'll be making close to a $250 Toys-for-Tots donation at the end of the year courtesy of all of the carry-forward figures I have (I currently have 23).

I have two cases of the Lost Line/Vintage Variant wave coming to supplement the Carbon Freeze Chamber set I'm getting from HTS. I'm keeping one set of figures on both card versions MOC and the other case is going to be my double-openers.

This case was really a miracle since it meant I was going to be able to get, with as few purchases as possible AND zero figures I didn't - everything I needed to be "done" with the wave.

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Peter

Letting my collecting OCD get the better of me on a DAILY basis... and loving EVERY minute of it!

I'm slowly converting to an online buyer as well. I bought one of the Wave 4 revision cases from HTS a few weeks ago and it felt awesome to just get almost everything new delivered to my door all at once. Last full wave I saw in stores was the Blu-Ray wave back in February.

The only thing stopping me from ordering a case of this wave is that I don't want the duplicate Vader, Leia or Jar Jar, though I suppose I could trade those away for figures I still need (like Tarkin and the INC)

Since I've found a local friend to go in with and save on shipping, I'm a tad happier about buying online only.

I picked up Wave 4 at a K-Mart locally, which gave me some extras. That was the last wave I saw, and I saw remnants (repacks) of it once I believe at a Wal-Mart but none of the new(er) figures were there. Just the Wave 2 Luke and the Star Wars Vader were all I saw (well, Vader's newer I guess).

I never saw Malgus wave, anywhere, but in the case I got.... This wave seemed to have been seriously stunted. Acxtually Wave two with the DS figuers seemed stunted too, come to think of it. I only saw it, or remnants, 2 or 3 times IIRC. Part of me honestly thinks Hasbro saw the writing on the wall, and that 2 waves deep with TPM repacks was a big mistake, and they didn't let many of these out of the gate if they could.

Wave 4 SEEMED to hit more... Not here, but other areas seemed to see it semi-frequently, at least relatively speaking anyway.

Wave 5 I've barely heard a whisper of people finding it at all really.

Wave 6... maybe it's a turning point? Probably not.

From what I've seen, most retailers have their re-order points set to basically the pegs being bare. Target it seems pretty solidified since people clear the pegs, and then a re-order takes place at some point. WM it's more difficult to say for sure. K-Mart, at least here, hasn't had a ton on the pegs since the year began... Actually, most of mine didn't order Wave 1, which has been to their benefit. I've seen more new Clone Wars there than anything. The only TPM figures I saw at K-Mart were from the Deleted Scene wave's repacks.

I picked up most of this wave yesterday, thanks to a friend who owns a local comic book store. I got both card versions of Bespin Leia, Vader, Clone Trooper Lieutenant, and Sandtrooper. Couldn't bring myself to buy Jar Jar. Passed on the Shock Trooper. I'm not sure if this wave or the next will make it to retail, and if it does, I'm thinking it will be limited like wave 5. While I totally love the vintage cards, I really dig the blue cards as well.